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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what do you use for recipes? plain files? grocy? something else?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

About 25-30 years ago, I converted the dining room of my house into a rather large food pantry. It's just me, so I have little use for a dining room. So I use grocy & barcode buddy to track stock. When I bring in food stock it gets scanned in. When I consume food stock, it gets scanned out. I have an old Android tablet for the display and I have a hand scanner I bought off Amazon for $20. Actually works pretty well, and you can track stock levels. So if you are at the store, and there is a great sale on 50 lb sacks of flour, you can check stock and make a decision from there.

For recipes, I've been using CookTrace and I really like it. Mealie and CookTrace are pretty similar in a side by side comparison. I can bring recipes up on the Android tablet from the kitchen.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You never cease to amaze me, irmadlad.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Usually, when people say that to me, they're shaking their head in disbelief that I can screw something up good and proper yet again.